The audience is free to sit either facing the screen, or can watch the dalang at work. The language used can be quite incomprehensible to the layman and those who are unfamiliar with the local Malay dialect, but the dancing of the shadows on the screen and the. An ensemble of musicians accompanies the dalang and in the olden days, performances can last a few nights. A dalang or story teller sits behind the screen with an assortment of puppets of various characters. This screen represents the universe and the light from a bronze oil lamp, called blencong just in front of the ‘Tok Dalang’ throws magical flickering shadows onto it. The wayang kulit is performed in a specially constructed structure with a white cloth screen facing the audience. The captured data was then transferred into a virtual Wayang Kulit Kelantan performance to simulate its shadow images. A fine cotton screen, called kelir, separates the dalang from his audience. This experiment was carried out in University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in the year 2011. This paper presents the use of a motion capture facility to capture and preserve the movements of an acting puppeteer and puppets in a simulated Wayang Kulit Kelantan performance. However, since Wayang Kulit performances cannot sustain the livelihood of puppeteers in Malaysia, not many people venture into this traditional performing art even the offspring of puppeteers are not very keen to carry on with it. The art of puppeteer is not well-documented because on the whole the older generations of practitioners have been reluctant to share their knowledge with outsiders.
This system of handling down Wayang Kulit Kelantan is no longer practised by the few puppeteers who are still active. Based on a closed system of individual attachment or “discipleship”, the art of puppeteer has been traditionally passed down to direct descendants of the master puppeteers. One of the major problems faced by the traditional Wayang Kulit Kelantan is that of disseminating the In a wayang kulit performance, the puppet figures are rear-projected on a taut linen screen with a coconut-oil light. Respected as a pusaka, or heirloom, it is theatre with storytelling through. The digitisation of Wayang Kulit Kelantan will promote the art form and also indirectly help to preserve it in alternative media. Wayang kulit, or shadow puppet theatre, is a form of traditional theatre. Some researchers have suggested that this form of theatre be digitized into the cyber world so that it can be watched on the digital screen. Wayang kulit (Javanese: ) is a traditional form of puppet-shadow play originally found in the cultures of Java and Bali in Indonesia.
There have been no significant attempts made at preserving this important traditional art form and it is clear that with the current situation in Malaysia and the low level of official support, Wayang Kulit Kelantan is unlikely to last long. The Kelantan Malay shadow play, a local cultural heritage in Malaysia is threatened with imminent extinction.
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